IN QUEER STREET
by Roughead, William; [Goodman, Jonathan]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus in very good minus jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Roughead's engaging preface includes a modest apology for failing to find a more original name for these collected narratives; his first such book was published in 1901, and so prolific was his output over the next half-century that in future years publishers would fall back on such titles as MAINLY MURDER, MURDER AND MORE MURDER, THE ENJOYMENT OF MURDER, THE ART OF MURDER, THE MURDERER'S COMPANION, and NOTHING BUT MURDER. One must admire a man who knew so well what he liked and liked it so very well. Still, Roughead was a man of dimensions: no more than four (five, at the very most) of the seven crimes recounted in IN QUEER STREET involve homicide.
A significant association copy linking two giants of the disreputable and deprecated but undeniably compelling genre, in the scarce and striking dust jacket. 8.75'' x 6''. Original gilt-lettered brown cloth. In original green pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with eight black and white plates, including frontispiece. 259, [1] pages. Embossed stamp of the library of Jonathan Goodman to front free endpaper. Light edgewear and bumping to boards. Jacket scuffed and chipped with some loss to spine ends; 2-inch square clipped from front jacket flap; moderate soil and toning to rear panel.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44741
- Title
- IN QUEER STREET
- Author
- Roughead, William; [Goodman, Jonathan]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus in very good minus jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- W. Green & Son, Limited
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- Criminology,20th century,English & British,Mystery,History,Biography & Memoir,Association Copy,Law
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